Two minor boys drown to death in a canal in Odisha’s Jagatpur

Two minor boys drowned to death in the Kendrapara canal near Baikuntha Vihar in Jagatpur town of Odisha’s Cuttack district.

They have been identified as Satyajit Sahu and Suman Sarangi, reports said.

The two minor boys were inmates of a local orphanage ‘The Blessing’ and had gone to the canal to take a bath when the mishap occurred, reports added.

Fire Brigade personnel after a search operation fished out their bodies from the canal.

In his reactions to the tragic incident, Cuttack Collector Nirmal Chandra Mishra has said that an inquiry would be conducted to find out how and under what circumstances the boys had gone to the canal to take a bath.